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1983 in literature

Index 1983 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1983. [1]

286 relations: 'night, Mother, A Gathering of Old Men, A Tiger for Malgudi, A Time for Judas, A. N. Wilson, Académie française, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Aladdin's Problem, Alan Walker (musicologist), Alden Nowlan, Alice Walker, Alicia Austin, Amado V. Hernandez, Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol, Amazing Stories, Ancient Evenings, Anna Rosmus, Anthony Grey, Anthony Thwaite, April 12, Astrid Lindgren, August 12, Babe (film), Barbara Cartland, Basil Copper, Beauty and the Beast, Benedict Anderson, Bernard Cornwell, Bill Peet, Booker Prize, Botho Strauß, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Brita von Horn, Bruce Bethke, Carnegie Medal (literary award), Cassandra (novel), Catherine Crook de Camp, Chapman Grant, Children's literature, Cholmondeley Award, Chris Van Allsburg, Christa Wolf, Christina Reid, Christine (novel), Christopher Paolini, Colin Thubron, Comics, Craig Raine, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk (novel), ..., Cynthia Voigt, Danielle Steel, Danilo Kiš, Dark Valley Destiny, David Brin, David Mamet, De kroongetuige, Dean Koontz, December 5, Desmond Bagley, Dicey's Song, Dick King-Smith, Duluth (novel), Edith Pargeter, Elfriede Jelinek, Elizabeth Jolley, Eric Gregory Award, Ernest J. Gaines, Ernst Jünger, Evangeline Walton, Fay Weldon, February 14, February 25, Foundation's Edge, Franz Liszt, Frédérick Tristan, Galway Kinnell, Genre, George Barr (artist), Glengarry Glen Ross, Gore Vidal, Grace Nichols, Greg Bear, György Dalos, Haidar Haidar, Handles (novel), Harold Lamb, Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock, Heartburn (novel), Hergé, Hilary Davies, Hollywood Wives (novel), Hugo Award for Best Novel, Hugo Claus, Icebreaker (novel), Imagined Communities, Irina Ratushinskaya, Ironweed (novel), Isaac Asimov, J. M. Coetzee, Jackie Collins, James A. Michener, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Jan Mark, January 5, Jean Echenoz, Jean Giono, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Jim Dodge, Jo Jung-rae, Joanna Russ, John Fuller (poet), John Gardner (British writer), John le Carré, John Robinson (bishop of Woolwich), Jonathan Keates, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia Urquidi, July 2, June 19, June 2, June 27, Kate Daniels, Ken Follett, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Kenneth White, L. Sprague de Camp, Labor camp, Larry Shue, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Leslie Charteris, Life & Times of Michael K, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Louis L'Amour, Luha ng Buwaya, Maarten 't Hart, Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha, March 3, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mark Helprin, Marsha Norman, Mary Mackey, May 21, May 4, Mem Fox, Michael O'Neill (academic), Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Mikey Smith, Miles Franklin Award, Morley Callaghan, Nacht und Träume (play), Nawal El Saadawi, Nebula Award, Neil Simon, Nelson Algren, Newbery Medal, Newdigate Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nora Ephron, Norman Mailer, November 17, On Wings of Eagles, Pascal Bruckner, Paul Durcan, Peter McDonald (critic), Poland (novel), Possum Magic, Premio Nadal, Prix Goncourt, Prix Médicis, Professor Shonku, Prometheus Rising, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize for History, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, R. K. Narayan, Rafael Alberti, Ram Swarup, Ray Cooney, Raymond Carver, Renée Richards, Roald Dahl, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert B. Parker, Roger Zelazny, Roy Andries De Groot, Rumer Godden, Run for Your Wife (play), Salman Rushdie, Salvage for the Saint, Samizdat, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Howe, Satyajit Ray, Scandal (Wilson novel), Science fiction, Second Serve, Senegal, September 16, Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection), Shame (Rushdie novel), Shantabai Kamble, Sharpe's Enemy (novel), Sharpe's Sword (novel), Shūji Terayama, Shonku Ekai Aksho, Startide Rising, Stephen King, Stephen R. Donaldson, Susan Hill, Susan Oliver, Tao Lin, Tennessee Williams, Terry Pratchett, The Anubis Gates, The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, The Color Purple, The Colour of Magic, The Devil's Novice, The Encyclopedia of the Dead, The Foreigner (play), The Fringe of the Unknown, The Gigli Concert, The House of the Wolf, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The Little Drummer Girl, The Loser, The Man Who Planted Trees, The Mists of Avalon, The Park (play), The Piano Teacher (Jelinek novel), The Prime Minister Was a Spy, The Queen's Gambit (novel), The Reluctant King, The Robots of Dawn, The Runaway Sleigh Ride, The Saint (Simon Templar), The Sanctuary Sparrow, The Sea of the Ravens, The Sheep-Pig, The Sorrow of Belgium, The Sword is Forged, The Tae Baek Mountains, The Tears of the White Man, The Unbeheaded King, The Widening Gyre (novel), The Wind from a Burning Woman, The Witches (novel), The Woman in Black, The Wreck of the Zephyr, The Zanzibar Cat, Thomas Berger (novelist), Thomas Bernhard, Tim Powers, Tom Dardis, Tom Murphy (playwright), Understanding Islam through Hadis, Unicorn Variations, Vilmundur Gylfason, Vivian Smith (poet), Walter Tevis, White Gold Wielder, Willi Glasauer, William Golding, William Kennedy (author), Winter's Tale (novel), Woman in a Lamp Shade, Worstward Ho, 1886 in literature, 1887 in literature, 1907 in literature, 1910 in literature, 1911 in literature, 1919 in literature, 1923 in literature, 1928 in literature, 1933 in literature, 1935 in literature, 1940 in poetry, 1948 in literature, 1954 in literature, 1983 Governor General's Awards, 1983 Whitbread Awards, 1985 (Dalos novel). 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'night, Mother

night, Mother is a play by American playwright Marsha Norman.

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A Gathering of Old Men

A Gathering of Old Men is a novel by Ernest J. Gaines published in 1983.

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A Tiger for Malgudi

A Tiger for Malgudi is a 1983 novel by R. K. Narayan told by a tiger in the first person.

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A Time for Judas

A Time for Judas is a historiographic metafiction novel by Canadian author Morley Callaghan, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1983.

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A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history.

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Académie française

The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language.

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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.

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Aladdin's Problem

Aladdin's Problem is a 1983 novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger.

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Alan Walker (musicologist)

Alan Walker, FRSC (born 6 April 1930) is an English-Canadian musicologist and university professor best known as a biographer and scholar of composer Franz Liszt.

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Alden Nowlan

Alden Albert Nowlan (January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright.

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist.

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Alicia Austin

Alicia Austin (born 1942) is a US fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator.

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Amado V. Hernandez

Amado Vera Hernandez, commonly known as Amado V. Hernandez (September 13, 1903 – March 24, 1970), was a Filipino writer and labor leader who was known for his criticism of social injustices in the Philippines and was later imprisoned for his involvement in the communist movement.

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Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol

Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol (أمل ابو القاسم دنقل,; 1940 – 1983) was an Egyptian poet whose poems were influenced by Greek mythology, then pre-Islamic and Islamic imagery to modernize Arabic poetry.

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Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.

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Ancient Evenings

Ancient Evenings is a novel by American author Norman Mailer.

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Anna Rosmus

Anna Rosmus, also known as Anja Rosmus-Wenninger, is a German author and researcher born in 1960 in Passau, Bavaria.

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Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey OBE (born 5 July 1938) is a British journalist and author.

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Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite is an English poet and critic, now widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters.

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April 12

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Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (born Ericsson;; 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays.

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August 12

It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

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Babe (film)

Babe is a 1995 Australian-American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Noonan, produced by George Miller, and written by both.

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Barbara Cartland

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English author of romance novels, one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the 20th century.

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Basil Copper

Basil Frederick Albert Copper (5 February 1924 – 3 April 2013) was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor.

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins (The Young American and Marine Tales).

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Benedict Anderson

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was a political scientist and historian, best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, which explored the origins of nationalism.

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Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell, OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign.

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Bill Peet

William Bartlett "Bill" Peet (né Peed; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Disney Studios.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Botho Strauß

Botho Strauß (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist and essayist.

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy.

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Brita von Horn

Brita Clara Alice Augusta Florence von Horn (1 April 1886 – 14 February 1983) was a Swedish novelist, dramatist, director and theatre leader.

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Bruce Bethke

Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author, best known for his 1983 short story Cyberpunk which led to the widespread use of the term, including for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.

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Carnegie Medal (literary award)

The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new book for children or young adults.

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Cassandra (novel)

Cassandra (Kassandra) is a 1983 novel by the East German author Christa Wolf.

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Catherine Crook de Camp

Catherine Crook de Camp, (November 6, 1907 – April 9, 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.

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Chapman Grant

Chapman Grant (March 27, 1887 – January 5, 1983) was an American herpetologist, historian, and publisher.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Cholmondeley Award

The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom.

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Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf (née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929, Landsberg an der Warthe – 1 December 2011, Berlin) was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist.

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Christina Reid

Christina Reid (12 March 1942 – 31 May 2015) was an Irish playwright.

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Christine (novel)

Christine is a horror novel written by Stephen King, published in 1983.

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Christopher Paolini

Christopher James Paolini (born November 17, 1983 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author.

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Colin Thubron

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.

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Comics

a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information.

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Craig Raine

Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English poet.

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Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

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Cyberpunk (novel)

Cyberpunk is a science fiction short story and novel written by Bruce Bethke in 1980, published November 1983 in Amazing Stories magazine, and published in novel form online.

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Cynthia Voigt

Cynthia Voigt (born February 25, 1942) is an American writer of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse.

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Danielle Steel

Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels.

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Danilo Kiš

Danilo Kiš (22 February 1935 – 15 October 1989) was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, who wrote in Serbo-Croatian.

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Dark Valley Destiny

Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard is a biography of the writer Robert E. Howard by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp in collaboration with Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin, first published in hardcover by Bluejay Books in December 1983, and in trade paperback by the same publisher in May 1986.

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David Brin

Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author.

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De kroongetuige

De kroongetuige is a novel by Dutch author Maarten 't Hart.

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Dean Koontz

Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author.

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December 5

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Desmond Bagley

Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 – 12 April 1983) was a British journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers.

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Dicey's Song

Dicey's Song is a novel by Cynthia Voigt.

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Dick King-Smith

Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.MEd (27 March 1922 – 4 January 2011), was a prolific English writer of children's books, primarily using the pen name Dick King-Smith.

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Duluth (novel)

Duluth is a 1983 novel by Gore Vidal.

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Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.

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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.

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Elizabeth Jolley

Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923 – 13 February 2007) was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there.

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Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission.

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Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest James Gaines (born January 15, 1933) is an African-American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese.

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Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger (29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a highly decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel.

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Evangeline Walton

Evangeline Walton (24 November 1907 – 11 March 1996) was the pen name of Evangeline Wilna Ensley, an American author of fantasy fiction.

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Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist, feminist and playwright.

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February 14

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February 25

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Foundation's Edge

Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the ''Foundation'' Series.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.

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Frédérick Tristan

Jean-Paul Frédérick Baron Tristan (born 11 June 1931 in Sedan, Ardennes, France) is a French writer.

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Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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George Barr (artist)

George Edward Barr (born January 30, 1937 in Tucson, Arizona, United States) is an American science fiction and fantasy artist.

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

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Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet, who moved to Britain in 1977.

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Greg Bear

Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.

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György Dalos

György Dalos (born September 23, 1943) is a Hungarian Jewish writer and historian.

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Haidar Haidar

Haidar Haidar (حيدر حيدر) (born 1936 in Husayn al-Baher) is a Syrian writer and novelist.

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Handles (novel)

Handles is a realistic children's novel by Jan Mark, first published in 1983 by Kestrel Books of Harmondsworth, London, with illustrations by David Parkins.

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Harold Lamb

Harold Albert Lamb (September 1, 1892 – April 9, 1962) was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist.

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Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock

Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock is a 1983 book by the American writer Tom Dardis, about the life and works of the comedic actor Harold Lloyd.

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Heartburn (novel)

Heartburn is an autobiographical novel based on Nora Ephron's life story about her marriage to and divorce from Carl Bernstein, her second husband.

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Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist.

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Hilary Davies

Hilary Davies is an English poet, critic and translator.

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Hollywood Wives (novel)

Hollywood Wives is a 1983 novel by the British author Jackie Collins.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Claus

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms.

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Icebreaker (novel)

Icebreaker, first published in 1983, was the third novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.

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Imagined Communities

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is a book by Benedict Anderson.

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Irina Ratushinskaya

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (Ири́на Бори́совна Ратуши́нская, 4 March 1954, Odessa – 5 July 2017, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

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Ironweed (novel)

Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Jackie Collins

Jacqueline Jill Collins OBE (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist.

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James A. Michener

James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, most of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.

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Jan Mark

Jan Mark (22 June 1943 – 16 January 2006) was a British writer best known for children's books.

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January 5

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Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz (born 26 December 1947 in Orange, Vaucluse, France) is a French writer.

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Jean Giono

Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.

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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (26 April 17118 September 1780) was a French author who wrote the best known version of Beauty and the Beast.

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Jim Dodge

Jim Dodge (born 1945) is an American novelist and poet whose works combine themes of folklore and fantasy, set in a timeless present.

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Jo Jung-rae

Jo Jung-Rae (Hangul: 조정래; Hanja: 趙廷來) is a novelist from South Korea, who is the author of the best selling novels Taebaek Mountain Range, Arirang, and Han River"Jo Jung-Rae" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# '.

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Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and radical feminist.

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John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller FRSL (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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John Gardner (British writer)

John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.

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John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels.

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John Robinson (bishop of Woolwich)

John Arthur Thomas Robinson (16 May 1919 – 5 December 1983) was an English New Testament scholar, author and the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich.

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Jonathan Keates

Jonathan Keates FRSL (born 1946) is an English writer, biographer, novelist and Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.

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Julia Urquidi

Julia Urquidi Illanes (30 May 1926 – 10 March 2010) was a Bolivian writer.

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July 2

This day is the midpoint of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after it in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years.

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June 19

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June 2

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June 27

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Kate Daniels

Kate Daniels (born July 2, 1953 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American poet.

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Ken Follett

Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett, (born 5 June 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works.

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Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.

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Kenneth White

Kenneth White (born 28 April 1936) is a Scottish poet, academic and writer.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction.

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Labor camp

A labor camp (or labour, see spelling differences) or work camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment under the criminal code.

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Larry Shue

Larry Howard Shue (July 23, 1946 – September 23, 1985) was an American playwright and actor, best known for writing two often-performed farces, The Nerd and The Foreigner.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960–80).

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Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.

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Life & Times of Michael K

Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee.

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Lisa St Aubin de Terán

Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 2 October 1953) is an English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist.

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Louis L'Amour

Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Luha ng Buwaya

Luha ng Buwaya or, "Crocodile's Tear" in translation, is a 1983 novel written by Palanca Awardee and Filipino novelist Amado V. Hernandez.

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Maarten 't Hart

Maarten 't Hart (born 25 November 1944 in Maassluis) is a Dutch writer.

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Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha

Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha is an autobiography of Shantabai Kamble published in 1983.

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March 3

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series.

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Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.

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Mary Mackey

Mary Mackey is an American novelist, poet, and academic.

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May 21

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May 4

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Mem Fox

Merrion Frances "Mem" Fox, AM (born Merrion Frances Partridge on 5 March 1946) is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy.

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Michael O'Neill (academic)

Michael O'Neill (born 1953 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English poet, and academic, specialising in the Romantic period and post-war poetry.

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Miguel de Cervantes Prize

The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.

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Mikey Smith

Michael Smith, usually referred to as Mikey Smith (14 September 1954 – 17 August 1983), was a Jamaican dub poet.

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Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

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Morley Callaghan

Morley Edward Callaghan, (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.

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Nacht und Träume (play)

Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) is the last television play written and directed by Samuel Beckett.

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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي, born 27 October 1931) is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author.

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Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer.

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Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

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Newdigate Prize

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize, more commonly the Newdigate Prize, is awarded to students of the University of Oxford for the Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

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November 17

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On Wings of Eagles

On Wings of Eagles is a 1983 non-fiction thriller written by British author Ken Follett.

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Pascal Bruckner

Pascal Bruckner (born 15 December 1948 in Paris) is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan (born 16 October 1944) is a contemporary Irish poet.

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Peter McDonald (critic)

Professor Peter McDonald (born 1962 in Belfast) is a poet, university lecturer and writer of literary criticism.

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Poland (novel)

Poland is a historical novel written by James A. Michener and published in 1983 detailing the times and tribulations of three Polish families (the Lubonski family, the Bukowski family, and the Buk family) across eight centuries, ending in the then-present day (1981).

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Possum Magic

Possum Magic is a picture book by Australian author Mem Fox.

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Premio Nadal

Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta.

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Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt (Le prix Goncourt,, The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".

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Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November.

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Professor Shonku

Professor Shonku is a fictional scientist created by Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) in a series of Bengali science fiction books published from 1965. His full name is Trilokeshwar Shonku, and by occupation, he is an inventor. He is the son of Dr. Tripureshwar Shonku.

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Prometheus Rising

Prometheus Rising is a book by Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1983.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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R. K. Narayan

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Rafael Alberti

Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

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Ram Swarup

Ram Swarup (Sanskrit: राम स्वरूप) (1920 – 26 December 1998), born Ram Swarup Agarwal, was a Hindu author and one of the most important thought leaders of the Hindu revivalist movement.

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Ray Cooney

Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright and actor.

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Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet.

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Renée Richards

Renée Richards (born August 19, 1934) is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who had some success on the professional circuit in the 1970s, and became widely known following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

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Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic.

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Robert B. Parker

Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre.

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

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Roy Andries De Groot

Baron Roy Andries de Groot (February 21, 1910 – September 16, 1983), was a British-born American culinary writer and wine critic.

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Rumer Godden

Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden.

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Run for Your Wife (play)

Run for Your Wife (1983) is an adult comedy play by Ray Cooney.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.

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Salvage for the Saint

Salvage for the Saint is the title of a 1983 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".

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Samizdat

Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.

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Sarah Howe

Sarah Howe (born 1983) is a Chinese–British poet, editor and researcher in English literature.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, music composer and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.

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Scandal (Wilson novel)

Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness is a satirical novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 1983 about a British politician's rise and fall, the latter caused by a relationship with a prostitute.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Second Serve

Second Serve is an American biopic of retired eye surgeon, professional tennis player, and transgender woman Renée Richards.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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September 16

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Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection)

Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: La memoria de Shakespeare) is a short story collection published in 1983 that collects the last stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, which had been published in diverse mediums, such as the national newspapers La Nación and Clarín.

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Shame (Rushdie novel)

Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983.

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Shantabai Kamble

Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble (born 1 March 1923) is a Marathi writer and Dalit activist.

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Sharpe's Enemy (novel)

Sharpe's Enemy: Richard Sharpe and the Defense of Portugal, Christmas 1812 is the fifteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1984.

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Sharpe's Sword (novel)

Sharpe's Sword is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell.

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Shūji Terayama

was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer.

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Shonku Ekai Aksho

Shonku Ekai Aksho (Shonku, All in All) is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1983.

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Startide Rising

Startide Rising is a 1983 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, the second book of six set in his Uplift Universe (preceded by Sundiver and followed by The Uplift War).

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Stephen R. Donaldson

Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series.

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Susan Hill

Susan Hill CBE (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works.

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Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver (born Charlotte Gercke, February 13, 1932 – May 10, 1990) was an American actress, television director and aviator.

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Tao Lin

Tao Lin (born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Anubis Gates

The Anubis Gates is a 1983 time travel fantasy novel by American writer Tim Powers.

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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35.

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The Color Purple

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

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The Colour of Magic

The Colour of Magic is a 1983 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series.

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The Devil's Novice

The Devil's Novice is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in fall 1140.

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The Encyclopedia of the Dead

The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Serbo-Croatian: Enciklopedija mrtvih) is a collection of nine stories by Yugoslav author Danilo Kiš.

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The Foreigner (play)

The Foreigner is a two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue.

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The Fringe of the Unknown

The Fringe of the Unknown is a science book by L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Prometheus Books in 1983.

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The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert is a play by Irish playwright Tom Murphy premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1983 and widely regarded as his masterpiece.

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The House of the Wolf

The House of the Wolf is a Gothic horror novel by author Basil Copper.

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The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is a 1983 novel by British feminist author Fay Weldon about a highly unattractive woman who goes to great lengths to take revenge on her husband and his attractive lover.

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The Little Drummer Girl

The Little Drummer Girl is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1983.

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The Loser

The Loser is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1983.

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The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees (French title: L'homme qui plantait des arbres) is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953.

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The Mists of Avalon

The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which the author relates the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female characters.

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The Park (play)

The Park is a 1983 play by the German writer Botho Strauß.

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The Piano Teacher (Jelinek novel)

The Piano Teacher (Die Klavierspielerin) is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag.

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The Prime Minister Was a Spy

The Prime Minister Was a Spy is a 1983 book by British writer Anthony Grey.

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The Queen's Gambit (novel)

The Queen's Gambit is an American novel by Walter Tevis, discussing the life of a chess prodigy.

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The Reluctant King

The Reluctant King is the overall title of a trilogy of fantasy novels written by L. Sprague de Camp as part of his Novarian series, as well as the 1983 omnibus collection gathering the books together into one volume.

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The Robots of Dawn

The Robots of Dawn is a "whodunit" science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983.

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The Runaway Sleigh Ride

The Runaway Sleigh Ride! (Titta Madicken, det snöar!) is a 1983 Astrid Lindgren children's book.

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The Saint (Simon Templar)

Simon Templar is a fictional character known as The Saint.

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The Sanctuary Sparrow

The Sanctuary Sparrow is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in spring 1140.

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The Sea of the Ravens

The Sea of the Ravens is a novel of historical fiction by Harold Lamb and illustrators George Barr, and Alicia Austin.

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The Sheep-Pig

The Sheep-Pig, or Babe, the Gallant Pig in the US, is a children's novel by Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz in 1983 with illustrations by Mary Rayner.

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The Sorrow of Belgium

The Sorrow of Belgium (Het verdriet van België) is a novel by the Belgian author Hugo Claus published in 1983.

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The Sword is Forged

The Sword is Forged is a 1983 historical fiction novel by Evangeline Walton.

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The Tae Baek Mountains

The Tae Baek Mountains is a South Korean roman-fleuve written by Jo Jung-rae.

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The Tears of the White Man

The Tears of the White Man: Compassion as Contempt is a 1983 book by the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner.

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The Unbeheaded King

The Unbeheaded King is a fantasy novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the fourth book of his Novarian series and the third in the "Reluctant King" trilogy featuring King Jorian of Xylar.

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The Widening Gyre (novel)

The Widening Gyre is a 1983 novel by Robert B. Parker, featuring his private detective character Spenser.

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The Wind from a Burning Woman

The Wind from a Burning Woman is a collection of science fiction stories by author Greg Bear.

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The Witches (novel)

The Witches is a children's dark fantasy novel by the British writer Roald Dahl.

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The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black is a 1983 horror novel by Susan Hill, written in the style of a traditional Gothic novel.

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The Wreck of the Zephyr

The Wreck of the Zephyr is a children's book written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg, first published by Houghton Mifflin in March 1983.

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The Zanzibar Cat

The Zanzibar Cat is a science fiction collection of short stories by Joanna Russ, first published in 1983 by Arkham House.

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Thomas Berger (novelist)

Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist.

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Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard (born Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.

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Tim Powers

Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Tom Dardis

Tom Dardis (1926–2001) was an American author and editor.

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Tom Murphy (playwright)

Tom Murphy (23 February 1935 – 15 May 2018) was an Irish dramatist who worked closely with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and with Druid Theatre, Galway.

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Understanding Islam through Hadis

Understanding Islam through Hadis is a book by Ram Swarup, first published in the United States in 1982.

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Unicorn Variations

Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by American author Roger Zelazny, published in 1983.

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Vilmundur Gylfason

Vilmundur Gylfason (7 August 1948 – 19 June 1983) was an Icelandic politician, historian and poet.

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Vivian Smith (poet)

Vivian Brian Smith (born 3 June 1933) is an Australian poet.

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Walter Tevis

Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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White Gold Wielder

White Gold Wielder is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the final book of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series.

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Willi Glasauer

Willi Glasauer (born 9 December 1938 in Stříbro) is a German illustrator of books for children.

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William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.

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William Kennedy (author)

William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist.

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Winter's Tale (novel)

Winter's Tale is a 1983 fantasy novel by Mark Helprin.

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Woman in a Lamp Shade

Woman in a Lamp Shade is a 1983 collection of short stories by Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley.

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Worstward Ho

"Worstward Ho" is a prose piece by Samuel Beckett.

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1886 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1886.

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1887 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1887.

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1907 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1907.

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1910 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1910.

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1911 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1911.

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1919 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1919.

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1923 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1923.

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1928 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1928.

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1933 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1933.

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1935 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1935.

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1940 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1948 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1948.

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1954 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1954.

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1983 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1983 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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1983 Whitbread Awards

Winner.

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1985 (Dalos novel)

1985 is a sequel to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_literature

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